"Python haters always say, that one of the reasons they don’t want to use it, is that it’s slow." There are no critics nowadays, only "haters". This word usage

"Python haters always say, that one of the reasons they don’t want to use it, is that it’s slow." There are no critics nowadays, only "haters". This word usage irks me. Someone who does not use Python because he thinks it is too slow does not "hate" it.